The rise is attributed mainly to a severe drought and a hot summer that left trees dehydrated, and led to an extremely poor olive harvest in Israel as well as globally, doubling prices worldwide.
A Palestinian woman stands with others (not pictured) as they gather near an Israeli army checkpoint as they wait to reach their olives fields on the other side of Israel's separation barrier ...
of land with 250 olive trees, part of the joint Freedom Farm project of the Palestinian Farmers Union and the Treedom for Palestine 2025 in memory of President Jimmy Carter, in the West Bank city ...